Improvement in devices for stoppers of bottles



J. HANLEY. DEVICE FOR STOPPERS 0P BOTTLES.

Patented Jail. 9, 1855.

l UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

JAMES HANLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming -art of Letters Patent No. 19,202, dated January 9, 165:").

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES HANLEY, of No. [3 Third Avenue, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and improved construction of bottles by which the internal pressure is made to bear on the lengthwise surface of the cork or stopple instead of bearing against the end of the cork or stopple, as heretofore, of which the following is a specie iication.

By this improvement I do away with the necessity of any tie whatever for fastening the cork, which I secure by the simple act of in sertion only, so that the internal force cannot displace it. This will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 represents the neck of an ordinary bottle with its cork tied down. Figs. 2 and 3 are two modes of applying my improvement.

The same letters refer to the llkB parts in all thc,figures. The oblique position of the bridge B in Fig. 3 allows the passage-way of the bottle to be nearly as direct us in ordinary bottles, and will be foundto be more com'enient in usethan where the cork is inserted at right angles. B .lligs. 2 and 3 it will be seen thatl make the mouth of the bottle with a bridge, B, ex-

tending over and connectingthe opposite sides of the neck of the bottle.

G'is the cork or stopple, which passes through the bridge B transversely to theneck of the bottle, thus effectually closing the orifice. The arrow shows the direction of the pressure as against the corks, respectively. In Fig. l the pressure is on the end. In Figs. 2 and 3 it is against the sides of the cork.

One very great advantage of this mode of stopping bottles that contain efi'ervescing liquids is thatit will admit of the cork being partially drawn, as shown at Fig. 4, so that a portion of the contents can be used and the cork replaced with ease and without waste of the liq11or..

I claim The making bottles so that the resistance of their contents shall bear laterally upon the cork or stopple, also the oblique position of the bridge 13, for the purposes as above set forth, in the manner stated or by its equivalent.

J AMES HANLEY. Witnesses:

JAs. B. Fmsnn, 'R. UA u l/lON Ovnu'ro'x. 

